A brief history of evolution (This is a poem that has to be touched to be understood.) We divide like spindle fibers in meiosis. Poets. Diverging in the first steps of parapatric speciation: some stick To the ancestral territory of paper while others begin to stray To the stage, but it’s like the aquatic return of dolphins, poetry Being an oral tradition at its roots. We split our cells, pacing the confines of language And relish our combine isolationism. Speciation will be complete when we c...